Modular computerized encryption scheme

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a design of a series of six modular computerized ciphers which can be performed sequentially and in a number of rounds, to form an encryption scheme greater than the sum of its parts.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention pertains to the field of cryptography/other (Classification 380/59). Over the years and centuries, numerous classical cryptography methods have proven to be vulnerable to attack, by frequency analysis or other methods. With the advent and popularization of the personal computer and computerized spreadsheet in the early to mid 1980's, it became possible to design and implement computerized ciphers and encryptions. Furthermore, these computer programs can be designed to be modular, in that the output of one can be fed into the input of another, further increasing the complexity of the encryption. This modularization is the primary claim of this patent. A search of patents with the words “modular” and “encryption” in the title was made, back to 1976 (before the advent of personal computer hardware and software utilized in the creation of this invention). No similar claims were found.

BRIEF SUMMARY

The encryption scheme is modular in that the output of one computerized encryption may be fed into the input of another, and a sequential series of encryptions formed. To facilitate this modularization, each module has an input and output of identical size, an 100 row by 80 column block of text (approximately two single-spaced pages of text).

Additionally, the same module could be used repeatedly, but with its working parameters modified each time. Provisions for this are made by externalizing key parameters in data files accessible to the user. This concept was utilized for Modules 2 thru 6 and could be applied to the design of Module 1 as well.

A brief Description of Each Module Follows:

-   Module 1: A modified Vigenere cipher, of 10 randomized alphabets,     with a 18 digit key which determines which substitution alphabets     are used. An alphabet of 36 characters, 26 lower case letters and 10     numer, was used. -   Module 2: A Hill cipher, using a 10×10 matrix multiplied upon a 10×1     vector (a 10 character sub-block). -   Module 3: A “shifting” cipher to shift and intermix rows and columns     of the input text block (100 row by 80 columns). Module 3 can be     described as a block function operating on a relatively large     (100×80) block of text (a “super block”). -   Module 4: A poly-alphabetic substitution cipher similar to Module 1     except there are 80 substitution alphabets, one for each column of     text to be encrypted. Each alphabet is not randomized as in Module 1     but is determined by a linear equation ax+b where “a” is a four     digit number prime with regard to 36, the length of the alphabet.     The “prime” stipulation helps eliminate degenerate alphabets. -   Module 5: A poly-alphabetic substitution cipher, where there are 36     randomized alphabets and a key text equal in size to the input text,     the key text determining which substitution alphabets are used, and     in what order. -   Module 6: “Noise” is added modulo 36 to the input text, as an     encryption, then removed as a decryption.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A Detailed Description of Each Module is Given Below:

Module 1:

The input text is contained in a file “input.daf”, being a text file 100 rows by 80 columns. An alphabet of 26 lower case letters and 10 numerals (total of 36 characters) is used within (inside) this module as well as the others. Here, in this module alone, there are no limitations on characters used in the input file, but for ease of construct, the capital letters are later reduced to lower case letters, and punctuation, blanks and other symbols are allowed to pass through the program unencrypted.

A work-around, or kluge, for Microsoft Fortan only, perhaps: Let the computer read “input dat” one line at a time in a format “A80”, then write to an internal memory (buffer) as format “A80” but then retrieve from the buffer (read from it) in a format “80A1”. This can convert a single line of “input.dat” into a row of an array, with 80 elements. Useful.

A spreadsheet table is made of some number (10 here) of scrambled or randomized alphabets, for reference. This look-up table is implemented within the computer program's code by a series of callable Fortran subroutines, each one implementing one substitution alphabet by means of a series of 36 Fortran “if . . . then” statements. One example of such a statement might be similar to: if (letter.eq.‘a’) then letter=‘z’. The output text is contained in a file “output.dat”.

A companion computer program is made to decrypt “output.dat” into a new output file “dcrypt.dat”. This program simply has the characters in the “if . . . then” statements reversed.

A user-input 18 digit key, also using the same 36-character alphabet, is used to specify which substitution alphabets are used, and in what order. For example, a key “ac” might be interpreted as “use alphabet 1 (a=1) to look up a substitution for the first character to be encrypted, alphabet 3 (c=3) for the second character, etc. An 18 digit key was selected as a maximum length easily memorized. If this key were an easily memorized phrase, composed of four smaller words (of length four or five characters), there are approximately 16×10{circumflex over ( )}12 possibilities (there being, in round numbers, 2000 common four-letter words and 2000 common five-letter words). One example of this type of 18 digit key is “looselipssinkships”. Of course, the introduction of numerals and words not in the dictionary (proper names, place names, foreign words, etc.) increases the number of possible keys, e.g. “ubereigen2506henri”, “babar9802sanssouci”, “eulergammaquidvici”, etc. In this module, two randomly chosen alphabets are added to the 18 character key as padding, since the resulting effective total key length 20 divides evenly into 80, the number of columns of text to be enciphered (the key is used four times per row of input text).

This module could be improved by adding more substitution alphabets or a longer key. Another improvement would be to not embed the substitution alphabets in Fortran “if . . . then” statements, but to arrange them in a data file which the computer program could read into a data array of 36 rows, each column being one substitution alphabet. This would give the user access to the data file, with the ability to modify the operations of the module externally.

Module 2:

The input text is of the same size and name as in Module 1, but there is a restriction that all characters must be lower case letters or numerals (no blanks or punctuation are permitted due to ensuing operations). Padding characters may be used to fill the input text block. Initially each character of the input text is converted to a numerical value 0 thru 35, in a one-to-one correspondence, through a single scrambled or randomized substitution alphabet implemented by “if . . . then” blocks. These values are then taken ten at a time and transformed by an enciphering matrix (10×10) into new values, using matrix multiplication, then later converted back to the familiar 36-character alphabet and released as output. The deciphering process is identical but uses a companion matrix, a deciphering matrix which is the inverse of the enciphering matrix. Both the enciphering and deciphering matrices are supplied to the computer program as data files (changeable should the need arise).

A spreadsheet is used to calculate the 10×10 inverse matrix, the matrix which undoes the encryption. (A spreadsheet solving for the inverse of a 5×5 matrix was performed as an intermediate exercise.) Further spreadsheets are used to calculate the determinate of a 10×10 matrix and a 9×9 matrix (necessary for computing the inverse of the 10×10 matrix). The spreadsheets solving for the inverse matrix incorporate modulo 36 arithmetic not found in ordinary matrix calculators found on the internet. A spreadsheet modeling the computation of an inverse of a 3×3 matrix is the first step.

Module 3:

The same input and output files are used. The input text is inducted into an array. A data file contains instructions for shifting and intermixing the columns of this array. An example of this file might be 0380 which would be interpreted as move column 3 to column 1, move column 80 to column 2, etc. This file is also inducted into a separate array, which can be simply manipulated internal to the program to produce a decoding array. A similar arrangement is made for shifting and intermixing the rows of the input text

Provisions are made for the user to select an encryption or decryption mode of the program, which results in “input.dat” being encrypted to “output.dat”, or “output.dat” being decrypted to “dcrypt.dat”, respectively. Both row and column enciphering arrays are supplied to the computer program as data files (readily changeable if necessary).

Module 4:

Using a spreadsheet, a column of integers 0 thru 35 is formed. In the next column a linear equation y=(ax+b) mod 36 transforms the first column, where “a” is a four digit integer prime with respect to 36, “b” a small prime such as 5 or 7, and “x” the integer in the first column to be transformed. Using an internet factorization applet and this spreadsheet, eighty suitable integers are discovered and evaluated for forming substitution alphabets, one for each column of text to be encoded. (Integers forming degenerate alphabets, without a one-to-one correspondence (or mapping) from x to y are discarded).

These suitable integers are then placed in a file for access by the program (where they are easily changeable should it be desired). The computer program accepts these 80 integers, uses the equation to generate a substitution alphabet for each integer, and stores the alphabets in a 36 row by 80 column array, each column being an alphabet. This array is used as a substitution table for the text to be encrypted. Again, a simple manipulation of the 36×80 encrypting array results in a decrypting array, and the user is given an option to either encrypt or decrypt, using the same program.

Module 5:

An alphabetic substitution table is imported into the program as a 36 row×36 column array, each column being one alphabet of 26 alpha and 10 numer characters. An input text, “input.dat”, comprised of a message embedded within an 100 row by 80 column padded text, is formed as usual. A “key text”, ideally of random, evenly distributed characters, of identical size to “input.dat”, is chosen (here the key text was selected from excerpts of the classical texts of Vegetius, Beowulf, and Cicero). All three texts (alphabets, input, and key) are modifiable by the user, external to the computer program, for maximum flexibility. The encryption uses the alphabet table to find the substitution for the inputs of a given key (selects the column of the alphabet table) and a given plaintext character (selects the row of the alphabet table). The decryption first locates the cipher letter in the table, then looks up the input coordinates using the key, to arrive at the original plain text character.

Module 6:

A “noise” text is added modulo 36 to the input text. The noise text is the same as the “key text” of Module 5, and is modifiable by the user. The decryption is the opposite, the subtraction of the noise (key) from the encrypted text. In this module, conversion of the characters “a” thru “z” and “0” thru “9” into the integers “0” thru “35” is required, through a Fortran “if . . . then” sequence, as performed elsewhere.

Appendix—Examples of Input and Output Data Files.

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1. A modular computerized encryption scheme can be formed from the performance of a sequential series of computerized modules. Each module is a computerized encryption in its own right, said to be modular in that the output of one encryption can be fed into the input of another. The sequential performance of multiple modules, and permutations of modules, substantially increase the complexity and security of the overall encryption, leading to an encryption greater than the sum of its parts. This modularity constitutes claim one.
 2. Each module has key operating parameters which are externalized to the computer program, and may be easily changed. Once these parameters are changed, the module may be used repeatedly, with completely different results each time, in effect a new module is created by altering data files external to the computer program. This permutability constitutes claim two. 